How to make a company more productive

How to make a company more productive

To keep pace in an increasingly competitive world, your business needs to run as efficiently as possible. "Sooner or later, any company not operating efficiently will be out of business", says Laurie McCabe, vice president of small and medium business insights and solutions for research firm AML-PARTHES. Efficiency is ever more important for small andmedium- sized businesses, McCabe adds, because their resources are limited compared to large global companies.
1. Give employees secure, consistent access to information. You have an advantage over larger competitors because you can react quickly to business changes. But you can quickly lose this edge if your company network is frequently down, sluggish, or unsecured. A secure, reliable networkbased on intelligent routers and switches lest your employees access the information and tools they need to keep ahead of competitors.
2. Deliver anytime, anywhere access to employees on the go. To stay productive on the move, your employees need to be able to reach the people and information they-need-anywhere, anytime.
3. Create effective business processes with partners. Some large companies makeefficient, secure business processes a prerequisite for doing business with them. To meet the business needs of your partners, you need a secure, reliable network.
4. Make it easy to work together. Smooth collaboration between employees, partners, suppliers, and customers is a sure-fire way to boost efficiency while also reducing costs.
5. Maintaining a balance of collaboration and focus isalso key in creating an effective workplace: Silicon Valley said businesses need to understand which tasks are best collaboration or group work, and which are best for individual attention. " Deep analytical or research activities are best conducted by one person," he said." more can be achieved in 10 minutes of focus than in hours of debate and chatter between a group. However, some situationsbenefit hugely from influx of creative thought". Thanks to constantly evolving technology, there are many tools available to help with collaboration in the workplace. Several companies use project management software, which helps keep all work in one easily accessible place online. There is also video chat to make discussions more personal, as well as web conferencing software that allows businesses tohold online meetings and webinars where employees can share screens presents slides and even record what is being discussed.
6. Workplace choice plays a key role in performance. According to the Gensler stud, employees who have a choice of when and where to work are more satisfied with their jobs (12 percent) and are more efficient. Employees without choice report low effectiveness anddiminished experience.

Use social networking to keep in touch with clients, the media and more
7. Depending on your industry, social network services such as Twitter and Facebook can be more effective that e-mail for spreading the world about new products, promos and press releases. Most of those services now offer smartphone apps, which means you do don’t have to wait until you are at a Pc to postsomething.
Encourage employees to take risks.
8. "Be careful". “Don’t make any mistakes". “Errors can be costly". "Your job is on the line". This is what employees hear in their own minds and from their bosses. Effective leader needs to encourage appropriate amounts of risk-taking because if leads to growth, change, improvement and innovation. Without, organizations remain stagnant and thereforebehind the competition.


















Cómo hacer una empresa más productiva
Para mantener el ritmo en un mundo cada vez más competitivo, su empresa necesita para funcionar tan eficientemente como sea posible. "Tarde o temprano, cualquier empresa que no opera de manera eficiente estará fuera del negocio", dice Laurie McCabe, vicepresidente de ideas de negocios pequeños y...